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    with a ' dmter , < was Stained tby > uaceAsiirg-laefcJngi aads u ^ tbhinrg but the discordant eoTiaids < of her scolding voice jpeiu ? traEtrfdit < x i £ ^ Mmctum ^ while tl aiiy hints and ^ ev ^ niogi leefcui ? es > ei > iivifctedAthe doctor of imfcociality , # > r * Iris Induigen < jewi bookisH- ' seclftsioiil /^ "HKi goodnature suffered Wider the reproa # Jb ; he made efforts lifirrotdBtivate fireside cordiality ; but the mole and the eagle would make as meet companions as did the doctor and his wife . t -

    She was perfect mistress of the faults and affairs of all her neighbours ; and while she sat mending holes in stockings and table-cloths , liked nothing so well as making holes ia those < £ obr people ' s characters . Dr . Drennan was , on the contrary , utterly devoid of that perpetual and practical observation which may hb

    called Paul Pryism ; and he was full of philanthropic feelings . Thnks a mutual and an undisguised interchange of'thought brodtifeed nothing but disgust ; he recoiled from the narrowness of her aihW the enviousness and unkindness of her feelings ; she despised ^ what she deemed his affectation , and hated what she thought his ^ fbHyd When the doctor found converse impracticable , it ocetinrediaj him that he might still preserve some appearance , at least > pfi tlie social character , and , perhaps , induce some reform fey rea ^ lmg

    aloud i but he gave meat where he ought , to have given milk ; r b& could form no conception of the mental indifference , utisuscb |> tibility , and ignorance , which he addressed . Though individuals are incessantly judging each other , how few are qualified of'ca * pable of so doing . Ti-. j It has been said that the lesser cannot comprehend the g ^ eatfcrcj equally true is the converse . If I may be allowed , I will liken one individual to a vessel which contains a pint ; is it to be supposed

    that individual can understand another which contains a * qiiantf ? No : ifc is either utterly unconscious of the other ' s superiority , far regards the surplus , above its own measure , as superfkiou » Jt ^ Ja the same manner the larger vessel has no , or ia very rnfipebfoefc ; idea of the stinted capacity of the smaller , and thence , " judges it wron gly , or makes fruitless efforts regarding it . Mrs . Drennan ' s natural capacity was not deficient ; U had

    suffered from distortion and disuse . Her case , and hey ftust&frid *^ probably , appears an extreme one , it is only beicatts ' e tiWey * lire morally as incongruous , as they were mentall y unsiiitfedJ' ' IBRiBl her disposition been more qviiet , and his less kindly , Ifh ^ yWMJfil have presented the dull , unvarying , unsyihpatmfcing ^ f 6 vki'A which passes , unknown or unnoticed , behind many of ^ hf ^' fcriWHt windows , and nicely kept street doors of this metropolis ^ ib jgtPitb further . ^ ' ' ¦ ¦ : - «>•"'^ < T > iJi * i

    Let it not be imagined that I contemn , or WoUld ca ^ f ritfitiiiTe upon household duties , 6 r 'd ^ na estic man aWett ^ nt J'Vo M ' ftiV'fWW ' tnat-I regard skill Upon thpse points as ambrig < h ^ fi ' e ^ WMaH ^ F femalfe feducatioji . Ti ^ ly skW ^ e ^ iftHe nY Ȥ f fe ^ tttWea ^ nflift ^ Sr tM pfWent dAf /' WhaiWe / is Bf &Ay > littimiatim , e ' % Ht > V W \ M

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/5/